America’s regime-approved media are attacking Missouri GOP Sen. Eric Schmitt for attempting to stop leftist racism from corrupting the U.S. military.
In a seemingly coordinated campaign, several left-wing outlets have published articles in recent weeks smearing Schmitt for holding up the promotion of Air Force Col. Benjamin Jonsson over Jonsson’s embrace of neo-Marxist ideology. Promoted by President Biden to brigadier general last year, Jonsson penned an article in the Air Force Times weeks after George Floyd’s death lamenting white airmen who don’t go along with leftist talking points about “racial injustice” in the U.S. armed forces.
Colonel Attacks White Soldiers For Their Race
In his lengthy diatribe directed at white service members, Jonsson claimed, “As white colonels, you and I are the biggest barriers to change if we do not personally address racial injustice in our Air Force” and that “[d]efensiveness is a predictable response by white people to any discussion of racial injustice.”
“White colonels are no exception,” Jonsson wrote. “We are largely blind to institutional racism, and we take offense to any suggestion that our system advantaged us at the expense of others.”
After criticizing a fellow airman for suggesting that anyone who joins the service needs to, as Jonsson described, “adopt the culture of the Air Force [and] that [the branch] should not make cultural accommodations,” the Air Force colonel recommended his colleagues craft a “game plan” to break so-called “invisible barriers” in the military by reading Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to
